Celtis. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 65 
2. C. orientalis. Willd. 4. 995, 
Arboreous. Leaves bifarious, obliquely cordate, serrate, 
five-pointed, villous underneath. 
Papyrus spuria. Kemph. amom., 474, t. 472. 
Beng. Chicon. 
It is common over most parts of India, particularly in 
Bengal, where it grows to be a small, erect tree, covered 
with smooth, dark-coloured bark. It is in blossom the 
greater part of the year. ‘ 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, ovate-cor- 
date, fine-pointed, minutely serrate; above a little scab- 
rous, villous and whitish underneath, Flowers axillary, 
collected on short, common, two-cleft, diverging pedun- 
cles. . 
Mate, Calyx five-leaved, or_to the base five-parted, 
Corol none. Stamens five, elastic, longer than the calyx. 
Pistil an oval, abortive body, in the centre of the sta- 
mens. 
Female flowers generally on a separate tree, though 
* sometimes androgynous. Calyx as in the male. Germ 
oval, Styles two, hairy. Drupe small, succulent, when 
ripe black. Nut rugose, with one cell, and one seed. 
This tree is neither useful, nor ornamental, nor is it of 
long duration. 
3. C. trinervia. | 
Arboreous. Leaves obliquely ovate-cordate, acuminate, 
serrulate, three-nerved, smooth. Flowers pentandrous. 
A middling sized tree, a native of Chittagong, where 
it blossoms in February and March, about the time the 
young foliage appears, and that of the former year begins 
to fall. 
Young shoots a 1 little villous, the bark of the old woo- 
dy parts ash-coloured, with still lighter coloured vite = 
ad = 2 seam oer ovate-ct 4 
